Can you see the sitting figure in this photo captured by a NASA rover?

A man sitting on Mars?

Can you see the sitting figure in this photo captured by a NASA rover?

Photo: NASA

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A man sitting on Mars?

What about now?

Can you see the sitting figure in this photo captured by a NASA rover?

A man sitting on Mars?

What about now?

Can you see the sitting figure in this photo captured by a NASA rover?

Photo: NASA

Image 14 of 60

A cannon on Mars?

This high-resolution image from the Mars rover Curiosity, taken July 29, 2014, includes what some viewers describe as a small artillery cannon, seen on the left, just above the mid-point. Can you see it?

YouTube user "UFOs and SpacE" claims this photo shows a light from a UFO landing on the surface of Mars. the image was captured by the Mars Rover in 2014. Check out the next slide for a zoomed in shot and decide for yourself.

Perhaps the biggest question about the most recent hoopla over Mars rover photos is: What took so long?

Added to the list of Rorschach-ish figures described on Mars' rocky surface we now have a cat.

The image was captured by the camera on the car-sized rover Curiosity, which landed on Mars Aug. 6, 2012. (Its "sister," Mars rover Opportunity, has been sending travel photos home since Jan. 25, 2004.)

In that very long year, the rover accomplished NASA's main goal of determining whether Mars once offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life, the agency said in a news release.

Curiosity's first big finding came right away when its landing site in August 2012 turned out to be an ancient riverbed.

Another triumphant moment came from analysis of two mudstone slabs that the rover collected at another site and sampled with its drill, NASA said. The samples showed that the "spot was once a lakebed with mild water, essential ingredients for life, as well as a chemical energy source used by some microbes on Earth.

"If Mars had living organisms, this would have been a good home for them," NASA's news release said.